National Museum of American History
Patent model for printers' pocket case for bodkins and tweezers
Quail, William · ca 1867
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a combined tool in which bodkin and tweezers folded into their own handle for portability; the invention was granted patent number 70261. The bodkin (a small pointed awl) and tweezers were tools with many uses in the print shop, and always ready to the printer's hand.
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